Safer Brand05140 Pantry Moth Pest Trap and Killer for Grain, Flour, Meal and Seed Moths - 2 Traps

You just open the box and the traps are assembled already. You simply put in the lure chip and put it anywhere where you see pantry flies flying. Set it and forget it! I have been using them for 10 years!

I followed the instructions and fixed the pheromone trap. The mites were flying around the trap. Left it over night... Still flying around on the morning.

My moth infestation started with my cockatiel's food (I think) and spread so fast I'm still not sure I've found all the larvae-friendly nooks in my apartment. I'm still baffled why I find them hovering around in my bathroom!But my poor housekeeping aside, I stood in the kitchen, opened the sealed bait packet, and dropped it onto the sticky trap. Instantly two moths were circling. A couple hours later there were ten or twelve stuck in the glue. After a week it was covered with them and I had to dispose of it.The key with these infestations is breaking the lifecycle. You have to get rid of the moths before they can reproduce, which means you need to keep catching the boys for at least a couple weeks, and doing it before the girls can exercise their charms. The best advice is to employ both a trap like this and a larvae insecticide that you apply to your walls in any room where you think the infestation started up near the ceiling. This is because when the larvae hatch they crawl upwards. They hit the insecticide barrier and die (or become unable to cocoon, I don't recall which -- same effect either way).The insecticide is very effective, I've successfully eliminated these moths in the past with it. However, it is also toxic to just about every living thing -- including your pets and you. So I hate using it in the kitchen.The third thing you must do (and which I've been lax on) is find and get rid of EVERYTHING that's infested. The infestation is obvious. The larvae form small cocoons usually in the corners of boxes and walls (look up at the angle between your wall and ceiling). But they'll also eat their way into envelopes, like packets of taco seasoning. You can spot the tiny round hole. They like dry goods, and I've even found then in soap powder. Zipper closure bags aren't effective -- they can chew through them. They can also worm their way inside of twist cap tops on jars and I recently found them inside a can of McCann's Steel Cut Oatmeal where the metal lid was firmly shut. Maybe in that case they got in when I had the can open to make oatmeal (I do not mean to suggest that the oatmeal was infested when bought it). Put dry goods into firmly sealed hard plastic or glass containers.And the final thing to do is freeze the suspect foods. Any bag of bird food that enters my apartment goes right into the freezer for at least three days. That kills the eggs. If you can keep things like flour and cereal in the fridge you'll have better luck, too.This product as an excellent part of a moth eradication program. The box contains two, and you should use them both one after the other (don't set them up in two places at once, that confuses the moths) in addition to my other steps above.

We experienced a very annoying infestation of pantry moths over the past few months. Apparently they came in on some bulk oat bran that I purchased some time ago, and I didn't realize it because after the purchase, I changed my diet and wasn't eating oat bran for quite a while. At the time I bought it, I put most of it in an air tight container, but couldn't fit it all in, so the surplus was just in a plastic bag, which I stored in an open container. We were noticing these little moths in our home, but thought they were just coming in from the outside when we opened the doors, etc. When I finally went to use the oat bran, a moth flew out out of the air tight container and, of course, I threw that bunch away, but I had forgotten about the surplus. So the moths continued to plague us, and I finally made the connection and realized they must be coming out of that cupboard. I took everything out and was shocked to find moths and larvae on the cupboard walls, in my dishtowels, etc. I washed everything down and bleached the towels. But we were still getting moths! So I bought these traps to put in that cupboard. One day I even put a little LED light in the cupboard ALL DAY in case the moths couldn't FIND the trap! That evening when I opened the cupboard, a moth was sitting by the door of the cupboard, but NONE were on the trap! So much for the LURE! Today I took everything out of the cupboard again and found where they were hiding - INSIDE a closed salad spinner that I haven't used for years! I don't even know how they could have gotten in there, but needless to say, the spinner is in the garbage, and everything has been cleaned and disinfected again, but the traps are history. They were worthless.

This is the product that I effectively used to get rid of one MAJOR moth breakout and another minor one a couple years later. In order to do so, one needs to understand how these products work. Keep in mind that these type of products ONLY attract the male moths into the trap so you will need to keep an eye out for females and may have to kill them yourself. They will not kill the eggs or larvae. Larvae must also be disposed of manually. Products with potential eggs can either be thrown out, frozen, or wait for the eggs to hatch and catch/kill the moths once they do.Lastly, this product is for pantry (food) moths only, NOT closet (clothes) moths (for which there is another product).Getting rid of moths takes a bit of persistence and patience especially with a major breakout because they can lay their eggs elsewhere besides food and they can eat through plastic bags. It can be done with this product.1. Throw out any food that might be infected. For any food that might be questionable, store for a couple months in the freezer in order to kill the eggs (the refrigerator is not cold enough). Storing dry goods in airtight containers is recommended to contain any potential infestations brought in with new products.2. Inspect anything else within the pantry as well including boxes and books. (I found one inside of a cookbook.)3. Wipe down all the surfaces - including any holes (I had holes for shelving fixtures where I found several moth nests - I used a cleaner with Q-tips to clean them out).4. Look out regularly for moths around the infestation area (usually on the ceiling somewhere in the room) and kill them on sight. During the first week we had to look daily. At some point, you will not see any more moths, however, you may have more appear a couple weeks or a month later because of any missed eggs that may have hatched.It's no fun, but it can be done with some patience and persistence. Good luck!